King County County
King County was originally named after William Rufus King who was Vice-President when the Washington Territory was created. In 1986, a motion was introduced to change the namesake to Martin Luther King, Jr. On February 24, 1986, the King County Council passed Council Motion 6461 five votes to four setting forth the historical basis for the renaming of King County in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Because only the state can charter counties, this change was not made official until April 19, 2005, when the Governor signed Senate Bill 5332 into law.
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General information on King County
- Feature Type: County
- County Seat: City of Seattle
- Established: Wednesday, December 22, 1852
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for King County
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| King County | Official |
Origin Notes and History of King County
References to King County that document the origin of its place name
KING COUNTY was created by the Oregon Territorial Legislature by an act dated December 22, 1852, and named in honor of William R. King, of Alabama, who had been elected Vice President of the United States. He died before being inaugurated.
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Seattle, past to present by Roger Sale
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xx, 273 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Our foundering fathers the story of Kirkland by Arline Ely, Kirkland Public Library
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Shoreline memories Volume 1 by Shoreline Historical Society
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Pig-tail days in old Seattle by Sophie Frye Bass
ONLY SOME TWELVE DECADES have passed since the first small band of settlers dug clams along the beach and built their cabins at Alki Point where Seattle, Washington, had its beginning. When the men came from Alki, after sounding the harbor and finding good anchorage for ships, they staked their claims on February 15, 1852, built their cabins on tiny patches of land they had cleared in the forest, and then began the survey through the heavy timber for the future great city. Seattle's streets still carry many of the names of those first settlers-or names bestowed by them-and in the following pages are the historically true, and often amusing, stories of the early days of these streets-how they looked, who walked along them; all the friendly, gossipy beginnings, recalled by the granddaughter of Arthur Armstrong Denny, founder and surveyor of the city.
[4], 191, [1] pages : illustrations, maps (on lining papers) ; 23 cm
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Four wagons west the story of seattle by Roberta Frye Watt
Published in 1931 by Roberta Frye Watt—the granddaughter of city founder Arthur A. Denny—Four Wagons West: The Story of Seattle is a deeply nostalgic, familial hagiography chronicling the pioneer origins of the Pacific Northwest’s largest metropolis. The text traces the Denny Party’s grueling overland migration, their iconic 1851 landing at Alki Point, and the subsequent establishment of the first sawmills and civic institutions on Elliott Bay. Writing the city’s history as a cherished family heirloom, Watt relies heavily on pioneer diaries and ancestral lore, detailing the pioneers' paternalistic relationship with Chief Seattle and their defense of the settlement during the Puget Sound War of 1856. The book ultimately functions to cement the original white founding families as the undisputed moral and civic aristocracy of the region.
A keen insight drawn from the work is how the narrative weaponizes maternal pioneer nostalgia and domestic intimacy to sanitize the aggressive mechanics of urban colonial expansion. By framing the establishment of Seattle not as a calculated, capitalist enterprise of land speculation, but as a cozy, inevitable, and divinely guided family triumph, Watt successfully domesticates the violent dispossession of the Duwamish people. This historiographical maneuver effectively reduces Indigenous sovereignty to a romanticized backdrop, transforming figures like Chief Seattle into tragic, benevolent props who seemingly exist only to willingly bequeath the landscape to its "destined" white inheritors. Consequently, the text allows the city's pioneer elite to legally and morally absolve themselves of the ongoing, systemic erasure of the region's original inhabitants.
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